Lady Hale speaks at University of Birmingham on Appointments to the Supreme Court

On 5 November 2015, Lady Hale gave a public lecture at the University of Birmingham on “Appointments to the Supreme Court”, in which she argued ‘we ought to be ashamed of ourselves … [i]f we do not manage to achieve a (much) more diverse [Supreme] Court’ in the process of filling the six vacancies which are due to arise over the next three years.

The lecture was part of an international conference, hosted by Birmingham Law School and the University of Sheffield to mark the up-coming 10th anniversary of the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC). The conference was attended by over 50 lawyers, judges, civil servants as well as commissioners and staff from the JAC.